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Article: Live Review

King Crimson at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier / Massey Hall

by John Kelman
July 11, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 An Evening with King Crimson Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier / Massey Hall Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal / Non-Festival Event Montréal, Canada / Toronto, Canada July 3, 2017 / July 5, 2017 Having covered the reunited, refreshed and reinvigorated “seven-headed Beast of ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2017

by John Kelman
July 7, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2017 Montréal, Canada June 29-July 3, 2017 It's always a thrill to return to Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM). Deemed the biggest jazz festival in the world by the Guinness World Book of Records, it only ...

Article: Interview

Tim Bowness: Ghost Lights and Life Sentences

by John Kelman
February 19, 2017

As much as it's something most would prefer to avoid, when a pair of musicians share a lengthy musical history together it's difficult not to compare and contrast the work they do when apart. Beyond contributing added clarity to their individual work, it helps to articulate what each of them bring to the table when they're ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Tim Bowness: Lost in the Ghostlight

by John Kelman
February 19, 2017

It's a somewhat hidden truth that a sizeable percentage of any musician's fan base believes that the music their favorite artists make is a direct reflection of their tastes. While an artist's music ought, indeed, be a reflection of what moves them, it's another truth that, more often than not, their listening habits run much farther ...

Album

Do Not Disturb

By Van der Graaf Generator

Label: Esoteric Antenna
Released: 2016
Track listing: Aloft; Alfa Berlina; Room 1210; Forever Falling; Shikata Ga Nai; (Oh No! I Must Have Said) Yes; Brought to Book; Almost the Words; Go.

Article: Album Review

Van der Graaf Generator: Do Not Disturb

Read "Do Not Disturb" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 26, 2016

You can't have a serious conversation about the infancy of progressive rock without citing Van der Graff Generator (VdGG) as one of the genre's driving forces amid its influence back in the '70s and beyond. They may not have been as widely known or sold as many records as King Crimson, Yes or Emerson, Lake & ...

Album

Merlin Atmos (Deluxe Edition)

By Van der Graaf Generator

Label: Esoteric Antenna
Released: 2015
Track listing: CD1 (Merlin Atmos): Flight; Lifetime; All That Before; Bunsho; A Plague of Lighthouse-keepers; Gog. CD2 (Bonus Atmos): Interference Patterns; Over the Hill; Your Time Starts Now; Scorched Earth; Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild; Man-Erg; Childlike Faith in Childhood's End.

Article: Extended Analysis

Progeny - Seven Shows from Seventy-Two

by John Kelman
May 31, 2015

A sad life truth is that, for far too many people, massive success changes everything. Despite making more money than would last the average family many lifetimes, they go through it like water; they gradually begin to believe all the positive press and massive sales, becoming legends in their own mind; and, perhaps worst of all, ...

Article: Rediscovery

Haken: The Mountain

by John Kelman
March 14, 2015

Haken The MountainInside Out Records2013 For a group as young as Britain's Haken to find The Mountain selected by Prog Magazine's readers as one of “The 100 Greatest Prog Albums Albums of All Time"--and at an über-respectable position of #54--is a remarkable enough feat for a group with only two albums ...

News: Recording

Van Der Graaf Generator Release New Live Album "Merlin Atmos" On Esoteric Antenna

February 16, 2015

London, UK - ESOTERIC ANTENNA, are pleased to announce the release of the marvellous new live album by Van Der Graaf Generator, Merlin Atmos on February 2, 2015. Recorded in 2013, the limited edition 2CD Digipack features the first ever full live performance of “FLIGHT” and “A PLAGUE OF LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS” In June 2013, Peter Hammill, ...